Project Manager/Project Engineer - Italy, Pescara - 6 Month Contract
With more than 2,000 employees, more than 300 million units per year, and a lot of innovative medicines in the pipeline, no wonder our client is one of the largest production units in the world! Our client produces, packs and distributes in a high-tech environment, sterile injectable medicines. More than 1 million injectable medicines are produced, packaged and distributed every day. Their destination: 170 countries, worldwide!
Do you want to work with an exciting company who are an established market leader within their niche field? We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager/Project Engineer to work on an exciting CapEx project in Italy on an initial 6 month contract. As Project Manager/Project Engineer, you will play a key role in the successful delivery of a new state of the art facility.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities for this Project Manager role include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Can work independently to meet key deliverables and milestones in addition to being able to effectively lead work within a matrix team working under the stewardship of the Site Capital Plan Manager or Senior Project Managers.
- Works closely with Senior Project Managers to build & manage the Schedule; this includes task forecasting and ensuring controls are in place to anticipate adherence / slippage vs plan and ensure mitigating actions are in place, as required.
- Establishment and management of routine team meetings to facilitate plan updates, decision-making, problem solving, escalations e.g. resourcing gaps, mitigations vs non-adherence to plan.
- Provides timely and thorough project update reports to key project stakeholders and senior management.
- Partners with all other functions responsible for progress of the change project, typically Quality, EHS, Production, Regulatory, External Vendors, among others.
- Maintains oversight on Project budget, reporting into Site Capital Project Controls; manages project risks i.e. leads the development of risk assessment and mitigations with the Site Capital project team.
- Coordinates on field activities (such as equipment installation, commissioning & validation, construction activities, etc) with contractors, external suppliers and internal SME
- Administrative activities for the project such as action/issue item tracking, generation of meeting minutes.
Desirable Experience:
- Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing unit processes; understanding of the Pharma regulatory environment, while not essential, would be advantageous.
- Minimum of a Degree in a Science or Engineering discipline with extensive project management experience. Project management skills to include experience of successful delivery of projects on schedule and to budget.
- Fluent in Italian
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to articulate a problem and communicate effectively. Intuitive and focused on Achieving results.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills (leadership, integrity, team orientation, flexibility, and creativity).
- Experience of working remotely within a Project team in a matrixed & virtual environment.
If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!